Adjectives of quantity, as πολύς and ὀλίγος in the plural, are usually joined to an adjective in the same construction by καί or τὲ καί (also by τέ or τὲ . . . τέ in poetry). Thus, πολλὰ καὶ δεινάD. 37.57 (δεινὰ καὶ πολλά 37. cross57), πολλά τε καὶ δεινάX.A. 5.5.8. In πολλὰ καὶ μεγάλα ἀγαθά (X.C. 1.5.9), the substantive is qualified by two adjectives; whereas in English the second adjec

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tive is taken with the substantive and treated as a unit modified by the first adjective (many good-things).